I am quite tired right now. It has been a stressful day thinking about Summer and her entire family in San Diego facing the most devastating fires California has ever seen.
Aside from being a stress ball worrying about my future in-laws, I planted trees, watered the dirt (peach fuzz lawn), made a run to Home Depot, worked on the computer for a couple hours, watched Tray and Mark build the stairs and cleaned the grout off of the kitchen tile two more times before applying a test coat of 511 Impregnator in the corner of the kitchen to make sure it wasn’t going to discolor the tile or make it into gold or something screwy like that.
I had to wait a few hours before I could check the test area of the tile, and by the time it was dry and the waiting period was over, it was dinner time. I only meant to be gone for an hour…but one thing led to another and I got home at 10:30pm. I just finished applying the 511 Impregnator to the entire kitchen and I am ready for bed (I had to apply the sealer tonight because the kitchen guys are going to be here early in the morning to continue the cabinet instalation).
Have a look at the “unfinished” version of the lower half of our stairs. These guys really did do a great job with the mathematics of this thing…they weren’t working with much space because of the way our front door is set up and the location of the hallway so to get the runs as long as they did without making the steps too steep took a lot of skill, planning and execution skills.
Good night everybody!
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Cool stairs!
Gary just now got up to the house. I had him memorize a speech for getting thru with his truck and horse trailer attached. My friend told him to turn on flashers right when you get to road block, slow down, roll down window and say “Meeting Animal REscue with supplies”. They didn’t quite buy it and cop followed and then did a u-turn and now he is home!!! No water or electricity but we have 500 gallons in hot tub. First he thought fire was not on property but as he saw tree I park under laying on ground smoldering, he realizes what a freaking miracle it is with those damn wooden soffits (my stupid idea). He said a few hot spots near horse pen so he has shovel to throw dirt since water is scarce. Wow, I am numb. I love my home.
I helped out Ms. Vicious today. Am I so proud. So, so very proud, elated and numb. What a day. Time to give back.
Thanks for your help today, Robin. I couldn’t do it without you!! I’M SOSOOOOOO happy that your house/horse/dogs made it. I swear it’s a miracle (or really, really, really good karma).
Were All good here, including family and friends. Rock on!
When in doubt hang with the Luck of the Irish.